Basket

Museum number:
1-39558
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010039558
Accession number:
Acc.1938U
Description:
Conical basket, leather patch lashed with thongs to base, leather thong looped through side of basket with short patch of cotton cloth attached. Canvas tumpline attached to rim, repairs on side of basket. Twined openwork, willow sticks, and weft.
Donor:
Ott Fleming Heizer
Collection place:
Gardnerville, Douglas County, Nevada
Verbatim coll. place:
At head of the Carson Valley
Culture or time period:
Washo
Collector:
Robert Fleming Heizer
Collection date:
1938
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
April 6, 1938
Context of use:
Found in branches in pinon tree (Pinus monophylla). Used as burden basket when gathering pinon cones.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 64.7 centimeters
Loans:
S1973-1974 #67: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Colin L. Busby (March 4, 1974–April 23, 1974) and S1977-1978 #63: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Fleming Heizer (1978–October 14, 1980)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-39558, described as Conical basket, leather patch lashed with thongs to base, leather thong looped through side of basket with short patch of cotton cloth attached. Canvas tumpline attached to rim, repairs on side of basket. Twined openwork, willow sticks, and weft.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Basket, accession number 1-39558, described as Conical basket, leather patch lashed with thongs to base, leather thong looped through side of basket with short patch of cotton cloth attached. Canvas tumpline attached to rim, repairs on side of basket. Twined openwork, willow sticks, and weft.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-39558, described as Conical basket, leather patch lashed with thongs to base, leather thong looped through side of basket with short patch of cotton cloth attached. Canvas tumpline attached to rim, repairs on side of basket. Twined openwork, willow sticks, and weft.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-39558, described as Conical basket, leather patch lashed with thongs to base, leather thong looped through side of basket with short patch of cotton cloth attached. Canvas tumpline attached to rim, repairs on side of basket. Twined openwork, willow sticks, and weft.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-39558, described as Conical basket, leather patch lashed with thongs to base, leather thong looped through side of basket with short patch of cotton cloth attached. Canvas tumpline attached to rim, repairs on side of basket. Twined openwork, willow sticks, and weft.

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